Bumblebee Photo Download ~UPD~

Yeah no problem! All you do is unscrew the chest(4 screws) and and cut the hood at the base of the vents. Then cut the screws that connect the doors off from the chest. Hope the photos explain better than I did lol

This might be the most dissapointing release of this line. Last night I compared his photos to the DOTM Bee I own, and they're almost exactly the same. The other figures got massive differences in paint, so what happened to this guy? Not worth it. At all.

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One of the hardest working tiny creatures on the planet can be found right in our backyards. These little guys work tirelessly day-in and day-out to make our plants grow, flowers bloom, and fruit trees produce. Scientifically called Bombus pensylvanicus, the American bumble bee is among the larger bee species in North America. These flying insects are yellow and black, and can have one to three yellow stripes on their abdomen. A closer look at the bumblebee reveals they are covered with tiny hairs.

The buzzing sound you hear as you relax outdoors this summer might be an American bumblebee hard at work. It is doing its part to pollinate our flowers and plants. This pollination process is a byproduct of how the bees feed themselves. A bee will collect pollen from a plant on tiny fibers on his legs. The pollen that does not fall off onto other plants will be eaten. When the bees are foraging, they can travel a mile or two from their colony looking for flowers. Unlike the honeybees, bumble bees don't store more than just a few days worth of food. They also do not process the pollen into honey.

Along with our partners, we've developed a wide selection of other resources to guide the conservation community as will all work to protect this species. These resources include survey guidance, survey reporting spreadsheets, voluntary guidance for conservation management, habitat assessment guidance, plant lists, identification and photography guidance, guidance for project proponents, as well as many other resources.

There are 21 species of bumble bees in the eastern United States and 48 species across the country. If you think you have seen a rusty patched bumble bee, please try to take photographs - photos from the top, side and head are helpful - and upload to BumbleBeeWatch.org, BeeSpotter.org, iNaturalist.org or another community science site. Most of those sites provide or verify identifications, if it's possible, from the submitted photographs. Standard insect anatomy terms are used to describe bees for identification

The average mass of pollen and nectar carried by bumblebees returning to the nest is around 25% of their body weight. However some bumblebees fly back carrying as much as 75% or more of their body weight!

Foraging bumblebees tend to avoid flowers recently visited by other bumblebees, although they will visit the same patch of flowers. Bumblebees will scent mark the flowers - leaving behind a message to others that the nectar is gone. The scent is secreted from a gland in the bumblebee's tarsus. Scent marking reduces the time spent probing flowers without nectar.

Some bumblebees cheat by collecting nectar from a plant without entering and pollinating the flower. This is known as nectar robbing. "The bee will crawl on the outside of the flower close to where she thinks the nectar is located, and then with her tongue sheath and mandibles she bites and pokes a hole in the flower. Then she inserts her tongue sheath, extends her tongue and mops and sucks up the nectar. Later other bumblebees may use the hole."(source: bumblebee.org)

Do Bumblebees sting? Bumblebee workers and the queens can sting, and their stinger is smooth - not barbed like that of the honeybee - so they can sting more than once.Male bumblebees cannot sting as they do not have a sting.

Did you know?

Bumblebees harvest nectar and pollen from flowering plants. They live in smaller groups than honey bees and do not tend to swarm. Bumblebees hibernate underground. They scent mark flowers they have visited. Bumblebees will not die if they use their sting, whereas honey bees will.

Bumblebee collecting nectar. photo by Tim Knight

Bumblebees (of the genus Bombus) are common native bees and important pollinators in most areas of North America. In spring, queens emerge from underground where they have spent the winter, and look for a nest site, often found underground in an old mouse nest or rodent burrow. Bumblebees visit flowers for the nectar and pollen upon which they feed, and once the eggs they lay have hatched, they use those plant resources to feed larval worker bees. Bumblebees can generate heat with their flight muscles, and queens will use this ability to incubate their brood and speed up development of the workers. After the first generation of workers hatches, the empty cocoons may be used for short-term storage of nectar, but bumblebees do not make and store large quantities of honey like honeybees (which need ample supplies of honey to make it through the winter).

The bumblebee queen produces a few generations of workers during the summer, which then take over the task of collecting nectar and pollen and help rear the final generation of the colony, queens for the next summer, and males to mate with them. By late fall, the colony has died out except for a few final workers and males, and the new queens burrow into the ground to wait for the following spring.

As one of the few species of commercially developed pollinators, a few species of bumblebees have been shipped to a variety of places around the world where they are not native but are wanted for greenhouse pollination. They typically forage outside of the greenhouses as well. As a result, they have been implicated in transmitting new diseases to wild, native bumblebees. They have also escaped from the greenhouses becoming feral in places where they are not native. They may become competitors with native species and serve as pollinators for introduced weeds.

A few weeks ago, Spencer Hardy, VAL wild bee expert, joined Susan and staff from Four Winds Nature Institute to teach them about native bees. She remembered the bee in question and showed him the drawing. He knew immediately it was a cuckoo bumblebee and might be an interesting record. Spencer asked her to post the original photo to the Vermont Atlas of Life on iNaturalist so he could easily share it with other experts to get their opinion too.

The Indiscriminate Bumblebee is native to western mountains and northern areas of North America. It belongs to the subgenus Psithyrus, the cuckoo bumblebees, which are social parasites of other bumblebees. The queens enter the nest of a host species, kill the resident queen, and then live and lay eggs in the nest. The host workers are forced by aggression and pheromones to rear the offspring.

Cuckoo bumblebees are all part of a group of species that a a subgenus called Psithyrus. In Vermont, we have four known species: Bombus bohemicus, Bombus cintrinus (Lemon Cuckoo Bumblebee), Bombus flavidus, and now, Bombus insularis. You had the Lemon Cuckoo Bumblebee, which is the most common one. SO cool that you found that and shared it!

In a study published today in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, researchers at the University of California, Riverside found that environmental threats are piling onto the stress faced by nest-building bumblebee queens.

They showed bumblebee queens were far less active and six times more likely to die during sustained exposure (37 days) to the pesticide, which could be somewhat mitigated by a shorter exposure of 17 days. The surviving exposed bees also produced only a third of the eggs and a fourth of the larvae of untreated queens.

The gecko, which was collected in May 2010 on Manus Island, is named Nactus kunan for its bumblebee-like coloration, according to USGS biologist Robert Fisher, who together with George Zug of the Smithsonian Institution, officially described the species.

Given the many pressures pollinators already face, shrinking bumblebee territory is a troubling trend for our food systems. But while scientists try to solve the puzzle, there are things we can do to help bumblebees.

A number of insects can be confused with bumble bees, chief among these is the eastern carpenter bee. This is a large, native bee with the same general shape as a bumblebee. It also has yellow hairs on its thorax. A major distinguishing feature between the two is the carpenter bee's abdomen. Carpenter bees have shiny, black abdomens with very few hairs, while bumble bees have furry abdomens. In the image above, the eastern carpenter bee is to the right and an American bumble bee is to the left. Texas contains a few other large species of carpenter bees that some also confuse with bumble bees (southern carpenter bee, valley carpenter bee)

Whether you choose to move the nest or not, please take a moment to submit your nest sighting through Bumble Bee Watch! By submitting a photo of the nest and a few additional habitat details, you are contributing to a large database of bumble bees in the United States and Canada that researchers use this information to improve conservation efforts. To check out nest observations submitted by others visit the Nest Gallery, you may be surprised at some of the locations bumble bees choose to nest!

You may also use Bumble Bee Watch to submit photos of bumble bees you observe while on a hike, in the garden, or anywhere else. Try the Bumble Bee Watch app (Apple or Android) for submitting photos while on the go!

Have you heard about the online community science database Bumble Bee Watch? When you sign up at BumbleBeeWatch.org you can submit photos of bumble bees to have the species identification verified by experts.

There's a section in the song "Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree" that describes everyone dancing "in the new old-fashioned way," and now the upcoming Bumblebee Transformers spin-off movie is putting its own spin on the concept of something being new and old-fashioned at the same time. A fresh photo from the film has emerged that showcases the title Autobot hero in his old-fashioned form as a yellow Volkswagen Beetle...but it's also new, because we haven't seen that character as anything other than a Camaro in a live-action Transformers movie yet. (Just go with me on this.) 17dc91bb1f